"Eh?" Tobi questioned as he turned to face the person behind him. "May I help you?"
The blond girl he found behind him growled. "Don't play innocent! You were gonna pick on some first years weren't you! You're gonna tell them some lies and get them really scared! How could you! don't you remember what it was like in your first year! I bet you were scared! It isn't nice to do things like that..." She paused taking a deep breath before continuing her monologue.
Tobi took the chance to but in, "Ano! Tobi is a good boy! I'm a first year!" he exclaimed.
Inwardly he watched in amusement as she visible deflated. "EH? You're not?" She examined him and raised an eyebrow, "You're too big to be eleven though."
He sighed, but said cheerfully "I'm not eleven! My magic just took a really long time to get strong enough to be noticed!" In reality they had discovered his magic when he had drained too much chakra. Chakra (especially in large amounts) masks magic. He had accidentally drained his chakra a few days ago and had drawn the attention of the wizards. Thus he received his Hogwarts letter.
After finally shaking her and her nosy questions off (and discovering her name was Suzanna) he entered the first year boy's room. The room was spacious with two bunk beds, one pressed up against the floor to ceiling window, and the other was pressed against the opposite wall. Against one wall was a small table with four chairs around it.
Ignoring the stares of the three eleven year olds in the room, Tobi walked over and collapsed face down of the last available bunk, falling into slumber.
Boy A was currently examining the room, Boy B was just laying on his bed, and Boy C was sitting on the floor reading quietly. Then the older boy wearing a mask came in and fell asleep on the only available bed left, right next to where boy C was sitting.
"Who's that?" Boy A asked.
"I don't know" Boy B replied crossly.
"Isn't he too big to be a first year like us?" Boy C asked softly.
"How am I supposed to know!" Boy B shouted sitting up sharply, causing Boy C to flinch.
"Hey! No need to get mad! We're just asking!"Boy A shouted back.
"Umm, please don't yell you'll wake him up." Boy C pleaded.
Totally ignoring Boy C they continued their argument, "You can't tell me what to do! You don't even know me!" Boy B shouted back.
"I don't need to know you to tell you to shut up!"
"Um..."
"I don't obey peasants," Boy C hissed anger shot like a dagger from his voice.
"I-"
Boy C quickly interrupted Boy A right as he was going to blow, "SHUT UP! YOU'RE GONNA WAKE HIM UP!"
A tense silence fell upon the eleven year olds. As they stiffly returned to what they were doing before the boy came in.
"You would've woken him up too." Boy A muttered.
"Shut up" A very embarrassed Boy C said, a blush covering his features. The tension lightened a bit but it was still there laying over the room. As the minuets ticked into hours when a bell rung throughout the room. A few seconds had passed, the boys wondering what the bell was for, when an older girl poked her head in the door way.
"That was the dinner bell you'd better come down." ducking back out she fled down the hall.
"We should probably wake him up," Boy C said turning to face the sleeping boy. Only to find the bed empty and see him walking out of the bathroom, a royal blue cloth strip covering his left eye and loose black clothes hung on his figure.
"Tobi is hungry! Let's go downstairs!" he announced grinning widely. They stared blankly at him, when had he woken up? Smiling cheerfully he walked out of the room, heading down the stairs to the dining room below.
Tobi had walked into the room, gaining a few curious glances from people sitting at the large table. Settling down in one of the available seats near the middle he instantly began to eat the strange and flavorful foreign foods. Grabbing a slice of some strange mixture of bread, cheese, and a sauce, with meat on top he bit into it. Only to open his mouth quickly in shock. It was hot! These people are crazy serving burning hot food.
"Hot?" A girl to his left asked sympathetically. He nodded. "Yeah, just let the food sit for a bit, It's always really hot."
"You've been here before?" Tobi asked, trying to keep the small conversation they have going, he had to make some friends or at least allies. Plus she seemed interesting.
She smiled, "Of course! I live too far away to dive to London, and it's too expensive to get a plane ticket, so I just come here for the two weeks before school starts." She paused a moment, grabbing a roll off the table and taking a big bite out of it, causing steam to pour out of it's insides. The blond hair girl frowned, "I've been coming here for four years." She blinked a couple times. "Oh! I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Mary, a Hufflepuff."
"Hufflepuff? What's that?"
"Ok, so Hogwart's is divided into four houses, Hufflepuff, we all sit around here on the table, Ravenclaw, they sit next to us, Sliterin, they sit next to them, and Griffindor, they're on our other side. You get sorted into these houses by a hat, that reads your mind to find out your personality and temperment." She took a deep breath, "Griffindors are brave, Hufflepuffs are kind, Ravenclaws are smart, and Slitherins are ambitious and care about their blood line."
Tobi paused a second...what would he be in? He was brave, smart,ambitious, and kinda nice. Overall he was a completely and totally awesome person. But... "What blood lines?"
"If you have magical blood from both of your parents and they have it from both of their parents, and so on, you're considered a pure blood. If you have magic from one side of your family you're considered a half blood. If you don't have magic on either side of your family you're considered a muggle born, or in rude terms a mudblood." She paused a moment, "I'm a pure blood but I'm in Hufflepuff."
"Oh...So what's Hogwarts like?"
"Hogwarts? It's a really cool school but the teacher's are really weird. Like, every year we have a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. My first year we had a guy named Gigory Lockheart or something like that, then we had a really good professor named Remus Lupin, last year our professor turned out to be a Death Eater in disguise, I'm not sure who it's going to be this year though." She frowned, staring into her glass of some brown liquid with little bubbles in it, "I have a really bad feeling about this year."
He frowned, a bad feeling? Tobi hoped she wasn't talking about him. "Oh," He turned his gaze to his food and began to eat as an awkward silence fell over the two.
Boy A ,who's name just so happened to be Forge, was the first to recover from his shock at the masked teen's sudden disappearance. Shanking his head he left the room behind for dinner.
Forge was a short kid with so dark hair it appeared to be black, his green eyes sparkled with mischievousness and passion. He was quick to anger but even quicker at making friends. His honest and cheerful personality draw people to him making him very popular very quickly. So when he emerged into the dining room he immediately went to sit with a group of cheerful looking kids on the end of the table closest to him. "Hello! My name's Forge! Nice to meet you!" Forge then proceeded to made friends with them.
Boy B, who's name is Gred, left the room next and sat down on the far side of the table where some people were quietly sitting eating dinner.
He was a quiet boy, semi-distantly related to the Queen on England. His quietness and tendency to get annoyed quickly, tended to make people think he was arrogant and so he was usually left alone. He didn't really understand himself well and just went through life as he went.
Boy C was the last to leave the room, mainly because he wanted to finish the page in his book. His name is Tom.
Tom is actually a very bright and talkative person, It's just that when he has a good book he tends to ignore the world around him. He hates to study the boring topics they teach in elementary school and hopes that the subjects at hogwarts'll be more interesting. Bringing his book with him he sat in the middle of the table with a few kids that were reading or talking.
Once dinner was over the four boys were too tired, from being squished and stuff. So they just went up stairs and to bed. They were going to Diagon Alley tomorrow after all.
Yes tobi actually had magic.
Yes Gred, Forge, and Tom are important to the story...later...
Sorry It took so long but I finally reached my goal! Four pages! Yay!